One Shelby County family has found their faith in God strengthened after a tornado tore through their Eagle Point neighborhood on Thursday, severely damaging their home and several others.
CNN reported that Dena Cook and her husband “rode out the tornado in a closet in their two-story home” and “could see the storm clouds above them when the roof gave way.” The tornado has been preliminarily rated as at least an EF-3.
It was, perhaps, a miracle that no one died in Eagle Point on Thursday, as Cook’s story underscores.
Last year, her husband reportedly constructed a wooden cross in their backyard. Cook recently draped this wooden cross with a purple cloth for Lent.
As she emerged from her battered home on Thursday, there was the cross — still resolutely standing — and the purple cloth — still hugging the cross.
“It’s just God,” Cook told CNN on Friday. “It’s still there and my cross is still there, because God was with all these people, and us.”
For Easter next Sunday, Cook plans to replace the purple cloth with a white one.
“This is what God is all about,” Cook reportedly said while pointing to the cross. “Lent is a sorrowful time but then on that Easter Sunday, it will be beautiful all again.”
Sean Ross is the editor of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @sean_yhn
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